Advice needed on seat base construction

[peteyboy]

Hi all,

Looking to make a seat base out of fibreglass or carbon. I'm struggling on how I will create the base to have enough support for the seat. If I glass straight across,all of my weight will just be on the fairing lips, which would be too weak.

From the pictures, does anybody have any suggestions on the best course of action?
Thanks

 

[pidjones]

Just run supports down to or up from the frame. I have a fiberglass pan on my GL1000 (huge) seat, and it only has the original sest mounts - no flex at all. I think it might have been formed over an original steel pan because it has all of the same shapes in it. BTW, don't count on stapling the upholstery. They had to use hundreds on mine because the fiberglass doesn't take staples well. I'd probably go pop rivets on the next. I would definitely keep the seat pan off of the fairing.

 

[teazer]

I would have a really long look at how to modify the stock seat to a shape you want. That way you get to keep the stock steel seat base and mounts.